ADBUSTERS

Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters
While two-thirds of Adbusters' readers reside in the United States, the magazine has subscribers in 60 other countries, with one of the most diverse readerships of any publication. Our readers are professors and students; activists and politicians; environmentalists and media professionals; corporate watch dogs and industry insiders; kids who love their slick ad parodies and parents who worry about their children logging too many hours a day in the electronic environment.

Adbusters offers incisive philosophical articles as well as activist commentary from around the world addressing issues ranging from genetically modified foods to media concentration. In addition, their annual social marketing campaigns like Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week have made them an important activist networking group.

Ultimately, though, Adbusters is an ecological magazine, dedicated to examining the relationship between human beings and their physical and mental environment. They want a world in which the economy and ecology resonate in balance. They try to coax people from spectator to participant in this quest. They want folks to get mad about corporate disinformation, injustices in the global economy, and any industry that pollutes our physical or mental commons.

They rule.

Fresh Air

Chris and I rented bikes and rode around the seawall. What an amazing date that was.

My Love

Black Snake Moan

In Black Snake Moan a God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.

Tattoo

When I was 21 I travelled to South East Asia for 8 months. I travelled to Thailand, Laos, and Malaysia. It was the most incredible experience a 21 year old would ever endure. I went with a friend at the beginning and at the end I was traveling on my own and meeting the most amazing people ever. This trip was a complete eye opener for me. I learned a lot about myself and how to sustain my journey for such a long period of time.

When I returned from Asia I was actually stuck coming back as I was totally out of money and was waiting on stand by for 2 weeks. I prayed every day in the temples for a ride back home and money in my pocket. The gods listen to me as I met some people that took me under their wings in time for my cash to run out. It was actually the night of my flight I was on my last dime when a friend I met bought my last dinner. I was incredibly grateful for the gesture. We actually have remain friends since then.

When I came back I was totally inspired which brought me to get a tattoo. The 2 Chinese symbols represent Drum and Dance and combine to create the symbol for INSPIRATION.

About 5 months later I was in a ESL class learning to teach English. I had an interview at a school in Vancouver to teach in Japan. The man who interviewed my was actually my best friends boss funny enough and hired me on the spot.

6 months of living in Japan I was excited for a Christmas back home. I made my next appointment to the tattoo parlor where I managed to get an appointment with a guy that was on Degrassi Junior High. Wicked. He did the hands holding the symbols. I did manage to go back a spend the next 6 month saving money to travel back to Asia and conquer Thailand again but hit up Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Australia.

I came back after another 9 months and decided to live in Australia. That is another story but the point is that tattoo express journeys and they are the best art expression.

My next tattoo is to create a tree growing from the symbols, basically represent my growth stage.

Willy Wonka

I have seen this movie more then 10,000 times and still when I watch it I get so excited!

The other night I was watching the newer version with Johnny Depp. Wasn't very keen on the way it was done. The make-up was the best part.

This time Willy has such emotional baggage not like good ol' Willy back in the day. The Umpa Loopas where the same - they spent more money on special effect rather then audition 45 small peeps. The music was super cheesy and not catchy at all either. Was a bit disappointed cuz I know all the words off my heart.

Why couldn't they make a sequel back then - wasn't something about the Glass Elevator? Man that would have been super cool...

Anyway.

Shopping, Fashion, Music and Yoga…

5th annual Moomba Yogathon and Blissfest
Saturday July 21

2:00pm –Blissfest Market, a showcase of local consumer products, services and delicacies with over 67 vendors
3:00pm – Children's Music and Yoga by Maalaa
4:00pm –"On the Mat Walk" fashion show, an exciting, ethical, eco-fashion show set to the funky,
down tempo beats of musician Rara Avis
4:30pm – Yogathon, beginners to experienced yogis convene to perform 108 minutes of yoga to benefit Camp Moomba.
6:30pm – Ghost Brothers Concert
7:45pm –Camp Moomba Yogathon and Blissfest closes

Thunderbird Stadium at UBC

The quintessential celebration of the west coast lifestyle raises funds to send children impacted by AIDS/HIV to Camp Moomba .

$20 admission will be donated to Camp Moomba .

Wet Back

This movie will make you realize how lucky we are to live in a decent place.


The film was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and written and directed by Arturo Perez Torres.

It was released by the independent studio Open City Works and distributed by the Ironweed film club.

The filmmakers follow Nayo and Milton (whose surnames are not given), migrants from Chinandega, Nicaragua as they cross through Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States in their attempt to reach Canada. Along the way, other migrants are interviewed as they are detained by Mexican authorities. Catholic human rights workers in Chiapas also offer their perpectives, particularly on the abuse of migrants by gangs such as the Mara Salvatrucha.

It also features interviews with United States Border Patrol agents and Arizona Minuteman Project organizer Chris Simcox.